Taytu the name comes from a legendarily strong-willed Ethiopian empress is a company composed of small leather and handwoven-textile producers in and around Addis Ababa.
He'd visualized peasant farmers wading into paddies to set out the tender seedlings and winnowing the grain at harvest time in handwoven baskets.
Soon the women emerge, dressed in handwoven black smocks and gripping slender, silver pipes between their teeth.